Penny Hallas

New works included in Coed Coexist, Plas Glyn-Y-Weddw, Llanbedrog, Gwynedd, LL53 7TT

16 May Opening event with free activities throughout the day – all welcome
16 May – 12 July Exhibition continues.

Initiated by Plas Glyn-y-Weddw in partnership with Pen Llyn artists Junko Mori  & John Egan, the project reflects on the vital role of trees and woodlands and our connections to and responsibilities for these ecosystems.

image: still from Beech Wood Pieces. Performance to camera. 16:9 duration 20:00
A gift of charcoal made from a fallen Beech tree on Pen Llyn prompted me to re-explore the native beech woods at Cwm Clydach National Nature Reserve near my home and studio. These are some of the most Westerly native beechwoods in the UK and formerly a source of charcoal that fueled the early Industrial Revolution. This led to the beechwoods being ravaged by successive industrial activities and associated systems including ironworks, limestone quarries and kilns, electricity pylons, tramway, railway, micro-hydro installation and dual carriageway.

New drawings in Concentric 10, West Wharf Gallery Cardiff CF10 5DB

9 May 2-4pm – opening event
9 May to 22 June. Exhibition continues. Open Thursday-Saturday, 10am-5pm

With Jacqueline Alkema, Adéolá Dewis, Kay Keogh, Elinor Staniforth, Temmah, Patricia Ziad

image: Storm Operatives (2025)

Saturday 14 March 2-4pm. Elysium Gallery, 210 High Street, Swansea SA1 1PE. Free – all welcome 

Join us for experimental improvisational live performance, bringing new perspectives to the current Sighting exhibition at Elysium Gallery. Expect sound, movement, spoken word, ritual, projection, piercing and disruption…

With: @vrosssmith @tim_mrtn_jones @iona.moves @or.rob @xavybabyyyy @beth.greenhalgh.11 @hollyslingsby @niapolly @tesswoof @waitetessa @pennyhallas

Supported by:
@celfcymruarts
@axisweb
@elysiumswansea
@sgor_score
#nationallottery

Sighting and ReSighting. 6th February to 28th March / 6 Chwefror i 28 Mawrth

ReSighting is running alongside the Sighting exhibition at Elysium Gallery, opening up the exhibition in new ways with additional workshops, events, live performance, resources, mentoring. The aim is to extend sharing and learning around the exhibition theme: the complex nature of our perception and experience of place.

Thanks to support from Arts Council of Wales, Axis Web, Sgôr Performance Collective, Elysium Gallery

Mae ReSighting yn rhedeg ochr yn ochr ag arddangosfa Sighting yn Oriel Elysium, gan agor yr arddangosfa mewn ffyrdd newydd gyda gweithdai ychwanegol, digwyddiadau, perfformiad byw, adnoddau, mentora. Y nod yw ehangu rhannu a dysgu o amgylch thema’r arddangosfa: natur gymhleth ein canfyddiad a’n profiad o le.

Diolch i gefnogaeth gan Gyngor Celfyddydau Cymru, Axis Web, Sgôr Performance Collective, Oriel Elysium

@celfcymruarts
@axisweb
@elysiumswansea
@sgor_score
#nationallottery

Elysium Gallery, 210 High Street, Swansea SA1 1PE.
Opening event 6 Feb, 7pm. All welcome.
Exhibition continues to 28th March, Weds – Sat 11-6pm

17 Feb 7pm Online artist talk: Tuesday 17th February, 7pm
21 Feb 2pm Gallery talk: Deep Time, with Alan Bowring, Geologist and Fforest Fawr Geopark Development Officer.

In ‘Sighting’, Penny Hallas explores the complex nature of our perception and experience of place. A sighting can be something that simply happens to us, punching through our inattention, dismantling our expectations, or it can be a deliberate act of focusing in. Using but subverting traditional techniques and formats, such as the myriorama, along with home-made, idiosyncratic viewing devices, Penny examines the mechanisms by which we attempt to make sense of the world and to situate ourselves within it. How does a space, in the shape, for instance, of a building, an institution, a landscape, become personal, ‘meaningful’? What do we bring to it and what happens in us when the meanings are usurped or when such places are threatened, damaged or made unavailable? All of which raises social and political questions about power, access and control, and the impact of changing attitudes on social relationships, land and environment but it touches deeply too on our most intimate psychological responses. More ludic than documentary, Penny brings a spirit of play, fantasy, improvisation and mischief to her enquiries, arriving often in the most unexpected places, by means of entirely unexpected paths.

29 June – 20 July New work in Unearthing / Dadorchuddio, a group exhibition with
Marja Bonada, Katie Cyfenw, Susanne Ring, as part of Finland/Wales/Germany exchanges.

Weds – Sat 3 – 7pm Galerie Toolbox, Koloniesraße 120, 13359 Berlin
20 July, 4 – 5pm I’ll be in the gallery with Susanne Ring

Supported by Arts Council Wales

15 June – 6 July Three-week artist residency in Eryri National Park with accompanying exhibition
at Oriel Plas Brondanw and workshop at Oriel Caffi Croesor

Hosted by Noëlle Griffiths at Hafod Art Studio.

10 Feb – 6 May 2024 Gallery 2, Aberystwyth Arts Centre.
17 Mar 2-4pm. Artist talk with Alan Bowring, geologist and Geopark Officer.
Celebrating the bicentenary of the myriorama.

200 years ago J.H. Clark and S. Leigh created a game to tap into a new craze sweeping Europe.
Meaning ‘many views’, their Myriorama was a set of 16 illustrated cards that could be rearranged to create
a near-endless variety of cohesive scenes. Long before cinema this was seen as a fine amusement for all
the family. I use but subvert the Myriorama’s idealised picturesque aesthetic, combining and intermingling narratives, deliberately introducing elements of dissonance and misfit as a way of extending conversations
about how we perceive and value the land in a time of environmental crisis.

Gweld y wybodaeth yma yn Gymraeg ar-lein

Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth University, Penglais Campus SY23 3DE
Artist talk in the Round Studio, Aberystwyth Arts Centre. Free / am dim

Oct 28 – Oct 29 The Muse, Glamorgan St. Brecon.
Two day collaborative Art Lab to share narratives about the former Mid Wales Hospital.
With Susan Adams and guests. See A Private Land / Tir Diarffordd for full details of the weekend events and
the BLOG to read all about the project

Ymunwch â ni yn ystod ein labordy celf cydweithredol dros 2 ddiwrnod i weld, clywed a rhannu naratif newydd
am yr hen ysbyty a phobl sy’n gysylltiedig ag ef cyn iddo ddiflannu’n llwyr. Edrychwch ar y dolenni am yr holl fanylion.

See the full 14 panel myriorama as part of the Our Picturesque Landscape Project exhibition at
The Dory Gallery 16 Sept – 8 Oct 2023 exhibition open 10am-4pm (closed Mondays)

15 Sept 3-4pm Private View
30 Sept 2–4pm Artists in Conversation. Book via eventbrite
1 Oct 10.30-12.30 Make a goup myriorama: free workshop
https://myriorama.eventbrite.co.uk

The Dory Gallery, Regent St, Llangollen LL20 8HL

Image: 3 of 14 interchangeable panels: crayon, charcoal, graphite, black chalk on paper, each panel 75.5 cms x 218. These 14 panels can be rearranged in nearly a trillion different ways. Video clip and more info -see recent posts on instagram